Posted by NC on 11/09/07 18:48

On Nov 9, 10:12 am, FFMG <FFMG.2zs...@no-mx.httppoint.com> wrote:
>
> I want to stress test my dev box to see where the bottle
> necks in my script might be.

Finding bottlenecks is usually called profiling, and it's a process
different from stress testing. There are many PHP profiling tools,
here are a few I can think of off the top of my head:

Advanced PHP Debugger: http://pear.php.net/apd
Benchmark: http://pear.php.net/benchmark
DBG: http://dd.cron.ru/dbg
Xdebug: http://xdebug.derickrethans.nl/

Additionally, if you have a professional-grade PHP IDE, it may have
built-in profiling capabilities (if memory serves, both Zend IDE and
NuSphere phpEd have built-in profilers).

> I am developing on a windows machine but will be running
> the site on a *nix machine.

So why do you want to stress-test the development machine then?

> Can you suggest any tool(s) that would have a few hundred anonymous
> users clicking various links and give me a valuable report.

There is a benchmarking utility called ab that comes with Apache:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html

Cheers,
NC

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